1Building via IDE Project Files 2============================== 3 4 This document describes how to compile, build and install curl and libcurl 5 from sources using an IDE based development tool such as Visual Studio. 6 7 Project files are currently available for Visual C++ v6.0 to v12.0. The 8 following directory structure has been used to cater for this: 9 10 somedirectory\ 11 |_curl 12 |_projects 13 |_<platform> 14 |_<ide> 15 |_lib 16 |_src 17 18 This structure allows for side-by-side compilation of curl on the same 19 machine using different versions of a given compiler (for example VC8, VC9 20 and VC10) and allows for your own application or product to be compiled 21 against those variants of libcurl for example. 22 23 Note: Typically this side-by-side compilation is generally only required 24 when a library is being compiled against dynamic runtime libraries. 25 26Dependencies 27============ 28 29 The projects files also support build configurations that require third 30 party dependencies such as openssl and ssh2. If you wish to support these, 31 you will also need to download and compile those libraries as well. 32 33 To support compilation of these libraries using different versions of 34 compilers, the following directory structure has been used for both the 35 output of curl and libcurl as well as these dependencies. 36 37 somedirectory\ 38 |_curl 39 | |_ build 40 | |_<architecture> 41 | |_<ide> 42 | |_<configuration> 43 | |_lib 44 | |_src 45 | 46 |_openssl 47 | |_ build 48 | |_<architecture> 49 | |_VC <version> 50 | |_<configuration> 51 | 52 |_libssh2 53 |_ build 54 |_<architecture> 55 |_VC <version> 56 |_<configuration> 57 58 As OpenSSL doesn't support side-by-side compilation when using different 59 versions of Visual Studio a build helper batch file has been provided to 60 assist with this. Please run "build-openssl -help" for usage details. 61 62Building with Visual C++ 63======================== 64 65 To build with VC++, you will of course have to first install VC++ which is 66 part of Visual Studio. 67 68 If you are building with VC6 then you will also need the February 2003 69 Edition of the Platform SDK which can be downloaded from: 70 71 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=12261 72 73 Once you have VC++ installed you should launch the application and open one 74 of the solution or workspace files. 75 76 Whilst files are provided for both libcurl and the curl command line tool as 77 well as a configuration that includes both, it is recommend that you use the 78 all-in-one configuration. 79 80Notes 81===== 82 83 The following keywords have been used in the directory hierarchy: 84 85 <platform> - The platform (For example: Windows) 86 <ide> - The IDE (For example: VC6, VC10, BCC5) 87 <architecture> - The platform architecture (For example: Win32, Win64) 88 <configuration> - The target configuration (For example: DLL Debug, 89 LIB Release - LIB OpenSSL) 90 91TODO 92==== 93 94 These project files are a recent addition to the curl source code and as such 95 are not 100% complete. This is a list of things that are still todo: 96 97 * Support zlib 98 * Support WinIDN 99 * Use of static runtime libraries 100 * Generate *.vcxproj.filters files for VC10, VC11 and VC12 101 * Add the Test Suite components 102 * Support for other development IDEs 103 104 Any additional help would be appreciated ;-)